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Haze

Haze is a first-person shooter video game developed by Free Radical Design and published by Ubisoft for the PlayStation 3. It was released worldwide in May 2008. Releases for Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows…

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Haze is a shooter developed by Free Radical Design, released 20 May 2008 on PlayStation 3.

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What Haze is

Haze is a shooter game developed by Free Radical Design and released in 2008. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Haze is a first-person shooter video game developed by Free Radical Design and published by Ubisoft for the PlayStation 3. It was released worldwide in May 2008. Releases for Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows were canceled. The game takes place in a dystopian future, where the Mantel Corporation rule the world with a drug called Nova-Keto-Thyrazine - also called Nectar, a "nutritional supplement" that enables soldiers to fight harder and smarter, but also induces a hallucinogenic effect, where soldiers are no longer cognizant of the real battlefield around them, instead viewing an idyllic, painless environment. The game takes place over a three-day period as Mantel battles a group of rebels…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Haze holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 19% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Haze launched on 20 May 2008, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto IV, GRID (2008), LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures and Ninja Gaiden II. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto IV, GRID (2008), LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, Ninja Gaiden II.

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When did Haze come out?
Haze was released on 20 May 2008 for PlayStation 3.

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